Blackboard vs Take Notes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Blackboard
This app offers a realistic chalkboard drawing experience with customizable chalk colors and brush textures. It's perfect for quick notes, creative sketching, or as a fun learning tool for children. Share your creations easily across social media platforms.
- Realistic chalkboard drawing
- Customizable chalk colors
- Adjustable brush size
- Chalk brush texture option
- Multiple blackboard backgrounds
- Unlimited blackboard creation
- Social media sharing
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Blackboard is a chalkboard like easy drawing tool with realistic textures.Can be used as a scratch paper to record inspiration, share ideas; also used as a child learning to draw, children drawing, reading a small blackboard. 【Features】 · Draw on a Blackboard with any color chalks · You can choose whether to enable chalk brush texture · You can create as many blackboards without limitation · Brush size can be adjusted at will · Available in 4 blackboard background styles · Can share to Instagram, Twitter, Facebook 【Contact us】 Email:contact@iuuapp.com
Take Notes
A minimalist digital notepad and whiteboard app designed for quick notes, drafts, and creative expression. It offers a clean interface, simple operation, and a calculator function, ideal for students and professionals alike.
- Minimalist interface
- Fast opening
- Calculator function
- Supports Apple Pencil
- Drafting and graffiti
- Temporary notepad
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It is necessary for installation and takes up a small space, only a few m; Simple operation and simple interface; Wide range of uses, fast opening; Popular app, download it quickly! This is a simple to the extreme small blackboard, convenient for your life, study and work. It can be used for making drafts, demonstrations, graffiti, blackboard writing, as well as your note paper and temporary Notepad. It can also be used for dictating words, calculating the draft paper of topics, and practicing calligraphy. Whiteboard in the meeting room, on-site guidance, children drawing and graffiti, etc. Added calculator function,Clean interface and simple operation. One finger can write, which is better with apple pencil. This subscription will be automatically renewed through your iTunes account, and the renewal fee will be deducted from your package within 24 hours before the end of the current subscription period. You can manage or cancel automatic renewal in the account settings. Cancelling automatic renewal requires at least 24 hours before the end of the current subscription period. If your trial has not ended yet, the remaining days will automatically expire after you start subscribing. To subscribe, you need to agree to the following terms: Service Terms: https://dongnan2022.github.io/posts/dongnan/fuwu Privacy Policy: https://dongnan2022.github.io/posts/dongnan/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Blackboard at 401 against Take Notes's 72. Blackboard also leads on iOS requirement (12 vs 14.1). On price, rating, review sentiment and update cadence there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Blackboard sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Take Notes sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Blackboard against 4.6 for Take Notes. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Blackboard has 401 ratings behind it against 72, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 82% and 83% positive.
Blackboard ships an update every 5 months, Take Notes every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Blackboard | Take Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (401 ratings) — better | 4.6 (72 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 82.4% of reviews | 83.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 401 — better | 72 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12 — better | 14.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 68 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 苏娟 陈 | 楠 董 |
Customer experience
Blackboard
Take Notes
Bugs and requests
Blackboard
Reported bugs
8 issues- 🐛 Ads appear after purchase
- 🐛 App freezes when ads appear
- 🐛 Slow switching between pages
- 🐛 App crashes after clicking clear button
- 🐛 Accidental full page erase
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- 🐛 Lagging with Apple Pencil
- 🐛 Writing does not appear
- 🐛 Purchase restoration fails
Requested features
32 requests- Add chalk sound effects
- Increase the number of available boards/pages
- Add a palette for storing colors
- Add a grid option for better drawing
- Improve erase all functionality (e.g., a button)
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- Add an eraser tool
- Add the ability to import PDFs or images
- Add more blackboard styles
- Add zoom functionality
- Add a pointer tool for teaching
- Add a ruled background option
- Add a finger eraser option
- Add basic mathematical shapes
- Add a feature to download the entire set of drawings
- Make adding new chalkboards more accessible
- Allow multiple pages to be deleted at once
- Add a feature to save original files for later editing
- Support multitasking (split-screen)
- Add a feature to export as PDF
- Add a feature for screen sharing in 16:9 ratio
- Add a feature to display multiple chalkboards in tiles
- Add a smaller chalk size option
- Allow custom color selection and reduction
- Add a warning message disable option for erasing
- Make recent chalkboards appear first
- Add a feature to change colors when sending to other places
- Add a feature to add photos and other functions
- Improve chalk effects for more realism
- Add a feature to turn off finger input so only pen works
- Add a feature to select colors with one tap and change with two taps
- Add a feature to add more boards as an option and display them in tiles
- Add a feature to make the blackboard scroll down as much as needed
Take Notes
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Blackboard
- Remove ads$0.99
Take Notes
- 月度会员3 Days trial$1.991 Month
- Pro version$6.99
